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  1. Multi-scale Mixture of World Models for Embodied Agents in Evolving Environments

    Jul 1, 2026Jinwoo Jang, Daniel J. Rho, Sihyung Yoon +2Embodied AgentsWorld Models

  2. RetailSMV: Exocentric vs. Egocentric Adaptation of Foundation Video World Models in Retail

    Jul 1, 2026Amirreza Rouhi, Rajat Aggarwal, Parikshit Sakurikar +2Video World ModelsVideo Pretraining

  3. 3D Point World Models: Point Completion Enables More Accurate Dynamics Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Skand Peri, Hung Nguyen, Chanho Kim +23D WorldWorld Models

  4. DVG-WM: Disentangled Video Generation Enables Efficient Embodied World Model for Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 30, 2026Ziyu Shan, Zhenyu Wu, Xiaofeng Wang +2Video World ModelsGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  5. AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model

    Jun 30, 2026Ying Wang, Oumayma Bounou, Yann LeCun +1Latent World ModelsClassical Planning

  6. World Narrative Model for Highly Controllable Video Generation: A Paradigm Shift from Pixel Sampling to Physical World Orchestration

    Jun 30, 2026Ye Chen, Xuanhong Chen, Yupeng Zhu +23Controllable Video GenerationMinute-Long Consistent World Generation

  7. MemLearner: Learning to Query Context memory for Video World Models

    Jun 30, 2026Jiwen Yu, Jianxiong Gao, Jianhong Bai +7Video World ModelsComplex Query Answering

  8. WorldRoamBench: An Open-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Stability of Interactive World Models

    Jun 30, 2026Ting-Bing Xu, Jiacheng Sui, Zhe Gao +12World ModelsReal-World Environments

  9. Ask the World Before Acting: Environment Probing for Calibrated Agent World Models

    Jun 30, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun CaiBeliefWorld Models

  10. One Video, One World: Turning Monocular Video into Physical 4D Scenes

    Jun 30, 2026Junhao Chen, Boran Zhang, Mingjin Chen +7Monocular VideosVideo World Models

  11. Delta-JEPA: Learning Action-Sensitive World Models via Latent Difference Decoding

    Jun 30, 2026Zhenghao Zhang, Yuanxiang Wang, Zhenyu Guan +11Latent World ModelsEfficient World-Action Model

  12. Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer of World-Action Models from Synthetic Priors

    Jun 30, 2026Zixing Wang, Kausik Sivakumar, Jinghuan Shang +5Zero-Shot Sim-To-Real TransferSim-To-Real Gap

  13. Self-Evolving World Models for LLM Agent Planning

    Jun 29, 2026Xuan Zhang, Wenxuan Zhang, See-Kiong Ng +1Large Language Model PlanningWorld Models

  14. Orca: The World is in Your Mind

    Jun 29, 2026Yihao Wang, Yuheng Ji, Mingyu Cao +54Latent World ModelsNext Activity Prediction

  15. FutureNav: Unified World-Action Modeling for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Lingfeng Zhang, Zeying Gong, Xiaoshuai Hao +7Vision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  16. DreamForge-World 0.1 Preview: A Low-Compute Real-Time Controllable World Model

    Jun 29, 2026Daniyel Ayupov, Artur Markov-TsoyVideo World ModelsWorld Models

  17. Walking in the Implicit: Interactive World Exploration via Neural Scene Representation

    Jun 29, 2026Zhiqi Li, Chengrui Dong, Zhenhua Du +6Video World ModelsImplicit Neural Representations

  18. Pondering the Way: Spatial-perceiving World Action Model for Embodied Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Hong Chen, Daqi Liu, Zehan Zhang +10Efficient World-Action ModelEmbodied Navigation

  19. The CRISTAL Method: Neurosymbolic analysis from AI-synthesized world models

    Jun 29, 2026Rafael Kaufmann, Felix Neubürger, Michael Walters +2Neuro-Symbolic FrameworkFinancial Strategy Research

  20. Learning Transferable Dynamics Priors from Action to World Modeling

    Jun 28, 2026Ze Huang, Jiahui Zhang, Hairuo Liu +3Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  21. Cognitive World Models for Process-Level Social Influence Evaluation

    Jun 28, 2026Minghui Ma, Bin Guo, Han Wang +4Social InfluenceSocial Reasoning

  22. Prototype Latent World Model Replay for Class-Incremental Learning

    Jun 28, 2026Weizhi Nie, Hui Wang, Weijie Wang +1Domain Incremental LearningLearnable Prototypes

  23. Flow Matching in Feature Space for Stochastic World Modeling

    Jun 27, 2026Francois Porcher, Nicolas Carion, Karteek Alahari +1Video World ModelsHierarchical Flow Matching

  24. ViPSim: Collaborating Visual and Parameter Spaces for Consistent Long-Horizon Embodied World Models

    Jun 27, 2026Longyu Chen, Heng Li, Wei Yang +2End-Effector PoseWorld Models

  25. X-Mind: Efficient Visual Chain-of-Thought via Predictive World Model for End-to-End Driving

    Jun 27, 2026Bohao Zhao, Chengrui Wei, Guangfeng Jiang +17Efficient Vision-Language-Action ModelsPerception-Action Loop

  26. A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models

    Jun 27, 2026Nuo Chen, Lulin Liu, Zihao Li +12Physics SimulationWorld Models

  27. A Path-Space Formulation of Prediction in World Models: From a Single Action to Prediction, Planning, and Irreversibility

    Jun 27, 2026Gunn KimWorld ModelsLatent Dynamics

  28. J-LAW: Joint Localization and Action-Conditioned World Modeling via Coupled Latent Factor Graphs

    Jun 27, 2026Guanqun Cao, Liang ChenLatent World ModelsEfficient World-Action Model

  29. From Tokens to States: LLMs as a Special Case of World Models and the Continuous Path Beyond

    Jun 26, 2026Paul DuboisLatent World ModelsAutoregressive Language Models

  30. Agent vs. Parametric World Models: Hybrid Planning for Reliable Language Agents

    Jun 26, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun CaiLarge Language Model PlanningLatent World Models

  31. Understanding Rollout Error in Graph World Models

    Jun 26, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun CaiLong RolloutsWorld Models

  32. Textual Belief States for World Models: Identifiable Representation Learning Under Strict Mediation

    Jun 26, 2026Xiang Gao, Kaiwen Dong, Yuguang Yao +2Intermediate Latent StatesEfficient Latent Reasoning

  33. DIM-WAM: World-Action Modeling with Diverse Historical Event Memory

    Jun 26, 2026Kai Wang, Zhaopeng Gu, Yixiang Chen +7Efficient World-Action ModelFaster-Wam

  34. Perceptual 3D Simulation With Physical World Modeling

    Jun 25, 2026Wanhee Lee, Klemen Kotar, Rahul Mysore Venkatesh +23D Perception3D Object Understanding

  35. MemoBench: Benchmarking World Modeling in Dynamically Changing Environments

    Jun 25, 2026Haoyu Chen, Kaichen Zhou, Hang Hua +11TextvqaWorld Models

  36. ReWorld: Learning Better Representations for World Action Models

    Jun 25, 2026Tianze Xia, Lijun Zhou, Kaixin Xiong +9Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  37. Internalizing the Future: A Unified Agentic Training Paradigm for World Model Planning

    Jun 25, 2026Xuan Zhang, Zhijian Zhou, Lingfeng Qiao +6Large Language Model PlanningLatent World Models

  38. World Action Models Enable Continual Imitation Learning with Recurrent Generative Replays

    Jun 25, 2026Manish Kumar Govind, Dominick Reilly, Smit Patel +2Efficient World-Action ModelImitation Learning

  39. Hallucination in World Models is Predictable and Preventable

    Jun 25, 2026Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong WangWorld ModelsLarge Language Model Hallucination

  40. Not All Actions Are Equal: Rethinking Conditioning for Dexterous World Model

    Jun 25, 2026Zizhao Yuan, Zhengtu Liang, Taowen Wang +7Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  41. EO-WM: A Physically Informed World Model for Probabilistic Earth Observation Forecasting

    Jun 25, 2026Junwei Luo, Shuai Yuan, Zhenya Yang +3Earth ObservationWorld Models

  42. A Generalization Theory for JEPA-Based World Models

    Jun 25, 2026Jingyi Cui, Qi Zhang, Hongwei Wen +1Joint-Embedding Predictive ArchitecturesWorld Models

  43. Risk-Aware Selective Multimodal Driver Monitoring with Driver-State World Modeling

    Jun 25, 2026Daosheng Qiu, Haozhuang Chi, Hao Su +4Multi-Modal SensingWorld Models

  44. Towards Evaluation of Implicit Software World Models in Coding LLMs

    Jun 25, 2026Egor Bogomolov, Yaroslav ZharovSoftware EngineeringSwe-Bench Verified

  45. PhysEditWorld: A Large-Scale Dataset Toward Physics-Editable World Models

    Jun 25, 2026Bin Hu, Yanwen Ma, Jiehui Huang +14Video World ModelsWorld Models

  46. Tactile-WAM: Touch-Aware World Action Model with Tactile Asymmetric Attention

    Jun 25, 2026Siyu Wu, Linjing You, Junjie Zhu +7Tactile World ModelTactile Perception

  47. Fast LeWorldModel

    Jun 24, 2026Yuntian Gao, Xiangyu XuLatent World ModelsWorld Models

  48. In-Context World Modeling for Robotic Control

    Jun 24, 2026Siyin Wang, Junhao Shi, Senyu Fei +4Efficient World-Action ModelVision-Language-Action Models

  49. Causal-rCM: A Unified Teacher-Forcing and Self-Forcing Open Recipe for Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation in Streaming Video Generation and Interactive World Models

    Jun 24, 2026Kaiwen Zheng, Guande He, Min Zhao +7Autoregressive Video DiffusionCausal Reasoning

  50. Beyond Next-Observation Prediction: Agent-Authored World Modeling for Sequential Decision Making

    Jun 24, 2026Guangfeng Cai, Kaibing Yang, Shuo He +4World ModelsSequential Decision Making

  51. World Models in Pieces: Structural Certification for General Agents

    Jun 23, 2026Yikai Lu, Yifei Wu, Xinyu Lu +1World ModelsClassical Planning

  52. Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

    Jun 23, 2026Yuxin Zuo, Zikai Xiao, Li Sheng +30World ModelsMulti-Agent Simulations

  53. Trimming the Long-Tail of Visual World Modeling Evaluation

    Jun 23, 2026Bingxuan Li, Yining Hong, Cheng Qian +6Video World ModelsAffordances

  54. Conformal Orbit-Valid Trust Horizons for Equivariant World Models

    Jun 23, 2026Hongbo WangHorizonLatent World Models

  55. When Do Conservation Laws Survive Learned Representations? Certified Horizons for Latent World Models

    Jun 23, 2026Hongbo WangInvarianceVersion Witness

  56. Autonomous Video Generation with Counterfactual Controllability for Self-Evolving World Models

    Jun 23, 2026Xin Wang, Wenxuan Liu, Tongtong Feng +1Controllable Video GenerationControllability

  57. NavWM: A Unified Navigation World Model for Foresight-Driven Planning

    Jun 23, 2026Yanghong Mei, Longteng Guo, Ming-Ming Yu +3Efficient World-Action ModelObject Goal Navigation

  58. A Watermark for Vision-Language-Action and World Action Models

    Jun 22, 2026Yule Liu, Shuai Liu, Jiaheng Wei +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsWatermarks

  59. IOI: Decoupling Kinematics and Physics for Interactive World Models

    Jun 22, 2026Chengyu Bai, Peidong Jia, Tiecheng Guo +11World ModelsKinematics

  60. Compression and Retrieval: Implicit Memory Retrieval for Video World Models

    Jun 22, 2026Zhan Peng, Jie Ma, Huiqiang Sun +6Video World ModelsVideo Pretraining